Join us for a conversation with Gábor Melis', the 2010 Google AI
contest winner, hosted by Dr. Jans Aasman.

Learn more about Gábor's winning game strategies, opinions on
Artificial Intelligence, finding Lisp, and what this means for the
Semantic Web. Gábor will present key AI algorithms from his winning
entry and take questions from the audience.

Register for this webinar at:
http://franz.com/services/conferences_seminars/webinar_1-20-11.lhtml

In today's connected online world, to optimize a customer oriented
business requires real time contextual customer knowledge across all
business channels and relevant social and competitive forces. In
complex, heavily customer-centric businesses such as
Telecommunications, Health Care, and Financial Services, the optimal
business must understand how each action of the business and the
individual customer relates to the profitability of the business and
customer satisfaction.

The systems to accomplish this are proactive, they are predictive,
they are personalized, and they learn to optimize their behavior for
each individual customer. Today, Telecommunications and other large
businesses can require the real time harmonization of 10 billion
activities a day. We show a means to accomplish this with real time
24*7 semantic technology, capable of directly driving the largest
businesses in the world. The results if this type of system can be
amazing, including massive cost reductions in customer care,
write-offs, retention, and improvements in customer satisfaction, up
selling, and resource utilization. Bottom line profitability is
improved, top line expansion is realized. Perhaps more important, the
agility to accommodate business change and to differentiate is
unprecedented.

To register for this free webinar:
http://semanticamdocs.eventbrite.com/

3. Support questions of general interest from 2010

From time to time, we report on customer questions and problem reports
which might be of interest to users in general. Here are some things
that came up during 2010:

See here for the full article describing the details:
http://franz.com/support/tech_corner/sprs-of-interest-121410.lhtml

4. New Book: Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a
Time!, by Conrad Barski M.D.

Quote from Slashdot's review, "Land of Lisp is an excellent book for
someone who wants to learn how to program, for web programmers who
want to move up out of their niche and start learning about CS theory
and systems programming, and for anyone who is puzzled about what
really goes on behind the web and wants to learn what web programming
is really about."